The Six Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 While we're at it, MLB is long overdue for a salary cap of its own.What would that accomplish?It would make MLB more competitive with the other three sports for fans and TV ratings.What are you basing that on? There's no relation between a cap and that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colortv Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 How far behind the NHL is the MLS in revenue/popularity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 How far behind the NHL is the MLS in revenue/popularity?Well, the NHL contract with NBC/NBCSN is $200MM/ for 10 years. The new NHL Canadian contract is for 12 years and $5.2B(Canadian). Then there still are the local TV deals which every team has.Meanwhile, the new MLS US (English rights) television deal is reportedly for $70MM/year. The key word is reportedly since even though media reports of the deal were talked about in January, nothing has been confirmed/announced. The current contract on all networks is for only $30MM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomDreamer Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 While we're at it, MLB is long overdue for a salary cap of its own.What would that accomplish?It would make MLB more competitive with the other three sports for fans and TV ratings.How competive is the NBA? MLB, for all its troubles attracting younger viewers, its revenue is about double that of the NBA and its cap. The gap with the almighty NFL isn't that big either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 While we're at it, MLB is long overdue for a salary cap of its own.What would that accomplish?It would make MLB more competitive with the other three sports for fans and TV ratings.How competive is the NBA? MLB, for all its troubles attracting younger viewers, its revenue is about double that of the NBA and its cap. The gap with the almighty NFL isn't that big either.162 games, thus double the potential live audience. How many teams control their own channel? Like one out of every three? that prints $$$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackieMoon Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Getting rid of salary caps, ruin sports organizations. Every sport should have one set price they are allowed to spend.So you like to restrain trade for services?As for Becks, he won't have enough votes to change. Plus, they are too gate dependent for big cap increases.How fair is it? In baseball, it's insane how many teams have to combine to equal what the Yankees spend. Nobody wants to see the same 4 or 5 teams near the top year end, year out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG_ThenNowForever Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 How far behind the NHL is the MLS in revenue/popularity?Well, the NHL contract with NBC/NBCSN is $200MM/ for 10 years. The new NHL Canadian contract is for 12 years and $5.2B(Canadian). Then there still are the local TV deals which every team has.Meanwhile, the new MLS US (English rights) television deal is reportedly for $70MM/year. The key word is reportedly since even though media reports of the deal were talked about in January, nothing has been confirmed/announced. The current contract on all networks is for only $30MM.$200m/year for 10 years? Or $200m over ten years? 1 hour ago, ShutUpLutz! said: and the drunken doodoobags jumping off the tops of SUV's/vans/RV's onto tables because, oh yeah, they are drunken drug abusing doodoobags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Six Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Getting rid of salary caps, ruin sports organizations. Every sport should have one set price they are allowed to spend.So you like to restrain trade for services?As for Becks, he won't have enough votes to change. Plus, they are too gate dependent for big cap increases. How fair is it? In baseball, it's insane how many teams have to combine to equal what the Yankees spend. Nobody wants to see the same 4 or 5 teams near the top year end, year out.This canard needs to end. Everybody being able to spend as much as the Yankees does not equal fairness. And it's not the same 4 teams every year. That's the NBA, which has a cap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Getting rid of salary caps, ruin sports organizations. Every sport should have one set price they are allowed to spend.So you like to restrain trade for services?As for Becks, he won't have enough votes to change. Plus, they are too gate dependent for big cap increases. How fair is it? In baseball, it's insane how many teams have to combine to equal what the Yankees spend. Nobody wants to see the same 4 or 5 teams near the top year end, year out.This canard needs to end. Everybody being able to spend as much as the Yankees does not equal fairness. And it's not the same 4 teams every year. That's the NBA, which has a cap.1 or 2 players can have a decisive impact on the success of a basketball team. The same is not true of every other team sport. That's why the same teams win all the time. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colortv Posted April 3, 2014 Author Share Posted April 3, 2014 How far behind the NHL is the MLS in revenue/popularity?Well, the NHL contract with NBC/NBCSN is $200MM/ for 10 years. The new NHL Canadian contract is for 12 years and $5.2B(Canadian). Then there still are the local TV deals which every team has.Meanwhile, the new MLS US (English rights) television deal is reportedly for $70MM/year. The key word is reportedly since even though media reports of the deal were talked about in January, nothing has been confirmed/announced. The current contract on all networks is for only $30MM.$200m/year for 10 years? Or $200m over ten years?I'm assuming he means 200 a year, because if that meant total it would mean it's less than the current MLS deal. I feel like it's an eventuality that MLS will surpass the NHL, should be interesting to see if the World Cup this summer gives it any bump in popularity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 How far behind the NHL is the MLS in revenue/popularity?Well, the NHL contract with NBC/NBCSN is $200MM/ for 10 years. The new NHL Canadian contract is for 12 years and $5.2B(Canadian). Then there still are the local TV deals which every team has.Meanwhile, the new MLS US (English rights) television deal is reportedly for $70MM/year. The key word is reportedly since even though media reports of the deal were talked about in January, nothing has been confirmed/announced. The current contract on all networks is for only $30MM.$200m/year for 10 years? Or $200m over ten years?I'm assuming he means 200 a year, because if that meant total it would mean it's less than the current MLS deal. I feel like it's an eventuality that MLS will surpass the NHL, should be interesting to see if the World Cup this summer gives it any bump in popularity.Kinda hard for that to occur when currently the WNBA gets higher ratings. but you used that wonderful conditional word, eventually. While the MLS will take abreak during the first two weeks of Brasil 2014, the league will be playing during the knockout rounds.The EPL gets higher ratings on NBCSN not just because of the quality of play and tradition, but also because a viewer ALWAYS know when games are going to air. MLS, not so much as Awful Announcing pointed out in print and with a podcast with Twellman. One of the great attributes of the English Premier League and why it's so viewer-friendly is that you always know when games will be on every weekend. There's going to be three slots on Saturday (7:30 AM, 10 AM, 12:30 PM), two on Sunday (9 AM and 11 AM) and sometimes one on Monday afternoon (3 PM). Of course there are some shakeups with midweek scheduling and conflicts with cup ties, but week in and week out the schedule is predictable and reliable.Now, tell me when MLS's broadcast windows are.*Performs fury of Google searches*You can't name one consistent broadcast time to find an MLS game. Whether it be ESPN or NBC, Saturday or Sunday or even some 8th day of the week that hasn't been created yet. The closest thing MLS has to any consistency is Sunday games on ESPN, but even that is a crapshoot. Just take a look at this schedule and you'll find games this year that started at 1:00, 1:15, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, and 11:00. 11 different start times!Here is Twellman's quote:"TV ratings for MLS have to grow. The TV product of US games is skyrocketing, but the next step is to be here for the Columbus Crew hosting the Philadelphia Union. It comes with every single soccer fan in the US that is a fan of the USMNT becoming a television fan of MLS. What's very important for us is to make sure it's not just regional. We need the Crew-Union game to be watched by Rapids fans. Until that happens salary caps won't grow, designated players won't grow, all those things come when the TV ratings go up and I hope fans realize that." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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